The Making of a Microchip

Some technical graphics are so chockablock with data that they’re virtually useless. Dense to the point of illegibility, they make the mistake of thinking that design is something you slap on after you put in all the "essentials." Wrong: good design is the essentials.

For example, this potentially overwhelming poster was laid out like a PCI card (one of those things you slot into a PC to add peripherals). Despite all the information, it's still awful pretty.

(For a far more legible PDF of this poster, click here. For a detail, you can just go on.)